Recent content by hundredakerwood

So is Amtrak safe in William J Flynn's hands as its next President & Chief Executive?

I am a newbie on Amtrak travel and planning to take the Coast Starlight from Burbank to Seattle with luggage. I note there are no Checked baggage facilities at Burbank. Can anyone kindly guide me to the procedure of boarding at Burbank with luggage.

Yes thank you we had worked that we had just the one overnight and now you mention it yes I can see we would have had two before the timetable changes . Our plans on getting back getting are a domestic flight back from Sudbury to Toronto as we are flying straight onto a 5-week venture to New...

Thank you very much for the info I think it's almost certain that if there's a cab option we will be getting a taxi thank you. As for me calling it Canadian Pacific I think that's a English thing because everything to do with railways in Canada according to us is Canadian Pacific (due to our...

Making forward plans to travel on the Canadian Pacific from Toronto to Sudbury Junction before boarding the Sudbury to White River train. Does anyone know if they are reliable transport links from the Sudbury Jnt station to the city of Sudbury in order to board the latter train as not been...

Whilst googling about the CZ, a reference came up about the The Utah Rail Passengers Association casting doubt on the future of the California Zephyr passing through the State. Sadly as I am in England the website will not allow me to read the article. Does anyone know anything about this or...

I wonder if there is a case for franchising out the long distance services to private company's or interest groups, thus taking it away from ,Amtrak. Here in the UK we have such a system of private firms running services on all lines and I know there is a lot of criticism from the die-hards of...